Now that’s how you make a comic book!

The last couple of issues of Sweet Tooth have been pretty standard I must say. Lemire is telling a pretty good story here but the art has been so ‘normal’ by his standards I was wondering if Lemire had no more tricks up his sleeve. But then I go right into this issue and boy it got me for the rest of the book. Jose Villarrubia has been the rock for this series, by making Lemire’s pencils look a little different his his coloring. But for once, I think in general as well, Lemire takes a stab at coloring in this issue and boy should he do it more often. The entire dream sequences is drawing by Lemire and he uses watercolors to showcase the dream. This comic is so far out in terms of what’s going on. Gus is going into skulls, seeing a massacre in a snowfield, and ending up floating on a boat at the end. It all looks so god damn gorgeous it’s hard not to keep these pages still to see the entire detail of the sequences. The pages that don’t showcase the dream are great in their own right, but Lemire kinda takes Villarrubia out of the equation for this particular issue.

So all I can say about this issue is: I want more Watercolors by Lemire please!